Lot 39
  • 39

Mascagni, Pietro

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Mascagni, Pietro
  • Autograph manuscript of part of the opera Amica, a draft for the love duet at the end of Act 1, with, added by Mascagni at the end, an autograph dedication signed ("P.Mascagni")
  • paper
the working short score notated on two five-stave systems per page, of Rinaldo's largamente in E-flat major "[Amica,] viens. Il faut me suivre vers l'air plus pur", with parts for Rinaldo (baritone) and Amica (soprano) and accompaniment, with deletions and alterations to the words and to the music, comprising ten bars of music in all, inscribed by the composer at the end, explaining that he is just leaving Rome to consign his score to his publishers [Choudens] in Paris: "Al carissimo Nicola d'Atri offro il primo dente di latte della piccolo Amica; e se lo merita perchè è stati colui che ne ha sentito i primi vagiti. P.Mascagni...Roma. 14. I. 905. mentre parto per Parigi per consegnare la partitura"

3 pages, 4to (c.32.5 x 24cm), on a bifolio, 12-stave Fabriano paper, [June-November 1904], the inscription Rome, 14 January 1905, small hole to upper corner

Condition

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Catalogue Note

This is a working draft for Mascagni's only French opera, set in Savoy and first performed at Monte Carlo on 16 March 1905.  It is a draft for the short score upon which the composer worked from June until November 1904; by the time of the dedication inscribed here, he had orchestrated the opera, which was ready for the publisher and theatre.  This passage is a characteristically full-blooded arioso for the romantic lead Rinaldo, found on pages 91-92 of the contemporary vocal score by Choudens (who was also the librettist).
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